So that's how all those young boys got infected

that dirty old pervert

No surprise there.

Maybe HE's the one that infected all those Libyan kids.

I'm shocked, shocked.....

I thought so.

re: #3 zombie

great minds think alike

(if I may be so bold)

I wonder if he gave to Abbas?

and does this surprise anyone

his marriage was a sham
and he buggered little boys for years

i wonder what Allah says about this

The PFLP don't get get much mention these days in the US, or even in the blogosphere, but believe it or not THEY are the ones backed for the leadership of an "independent Palestine" by about 90% of US academia.

Why?

Because they're Marxists.

Payback is a bitch!

God works in mysterious ways.

Now the liberals will love him even more...

It'll be interesting to see how the Islamic street reacts to this news. Will they continue to carry his poster? Will they say the Israelis magically infected him with AIDS?

I can't wait.

I thought AIDS started with monkey's and not goats?

We all called that years ago.

I guess there was a shortage of mellons.

who for 40 years had been carrying his gun from one place to another

and holstering his gun in all sorts of unsavory places, no doubt

re: #10 MikieBahamas

Payback is a bitch!

God works in mysterious ways.

nothing even remotely like payback or even divine intervention

if you place your thing where it doesnt belong, you will get burned

it is that simple

i wonder what Suha, the cow has to say about this

Wow.

I'm truly shocked.

I never knew that goats transmitted HIV.

Ah, so really he won the "No Belle Piece Prize"

Oh no...Sand People: I guess great minds think alike ;-)

re: #12 Yashmak

It'll be interesting to see how the Islamic street reacts to this news. Will they continue to carry his poster? Will they say the Israelis magically infected him with AIDS?

I can't wait.

Yes...they will say Israel gave him infected blood.

Well, if you thought he was a hero of the Left before.....

Hah! My husband wouldn't believe me when I said that AIDS was a distinct possibility. He won't believe anything on LGF unless he also hears it on the MSM. I am slowly educating him by telling him what's happening and reminding him when he hears it a couple days later on FOX. There has been much improvement since our marriage. The mental illness of liberalism seems to be slowly healing.

“To be honest, the French gave us the medical report, that stated that the cause of Abu Ammar’s death was AIDS.”

I remember when Arafat died, the incredible weaseliness of the French doctors, who absolutely refused to release the medical reports. It was cause for much derision here at LGF. We all knew what the cause of death was in the medical report.

The repulsive Frenchies didn't want to damage the reputation of their hero Arafat.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, when Bulgaria and Romania gained their freedom, a General, the former head of the Secret Service, wrote a book revealing that on vistis to his country, Afafat was provided with BOYS, and then PHOTOGRAPHED threw secret windows in the walls of the bedroom the Commies provided .
Somewhere those movies still exist......and then what?

Where do we sign up to stone the corpse? praise Allah.

ZIONIST AGENT!

. Suha is unconcerned.
She knew what was in the Red Binder all along.

re: #13 Oh no...Sand People!

I thought AIDS started with monkey's and not goats?

So the Mossad gave Arafish a green monkey?

/mixing my conspiracy theories

Arafat just better hope there ain't no Allah because he's in deep shit if there is. No coffee breaks where he's going.

re: #11 Poitiers-Lepanto

Now the liberals will love him even more...

Necrophilia?

So on top of a murderous, rebellious, ugly d*ck head, he was a homosexual too?

Wow, he really was unique.

I hope this news gets plastered all over Ram(kos om) allah.

re: #29 meMarc

Arafat just better hope there ain't no Allah because he's in deep shit if there is. No coffee breaks where he's going.

Oh I think allah is exactly where he went

re: #2 zombie

No surprise there.

Nope. How many here have been saying that for years?

Ah, the good old PFLP, which for those who haven't been following along with the alphabet soup of terrorist organizations, has always been part of the PLO. Fatah is the largest faction, but the PFLP was the second banana. Jibril formed a splinter group from the PFLP, the PFLP General Command (himself being the commander - how quaint).

Jibril's animosity towards Arafat is longstanding and goes back decades, so take this with a grain of salt.

All that said, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if what Jibril said was true and Arafat died of AIDS, which was long suspected.

Can we raise the Andrew Sullivan Feelings Threat Warning to "Heartache" level?

Calm down lizards...

This guy is stating what he heard someone else say. He did not see the report.

AND you know that tommorow he will be able to say that he was mis translated...

IMO This isn't the break we are looking for. We need a former lover, with graphic pictures to move the Arab Street.

Also it is not all great that Arafat was homosexual. This could very easily lead to a lot of gay bashing, both in the streets of Gaza, and in these forums...

The Red Binder = names and addresses of male liaisons, both human and goat.

Pretty interesting, but I'll look forward to something more conclusive, one of these days. This is a third- or fourth-hand account, which ain't exactly rock solid.

re: #8 amrilusaguy

and does this surprise anyone

his marriage was a sham
and he buggered little boys for years

i wonder what Allah says about this

Allah is buggering him right now.

Hey, maybe Allah is gay and will welcome him with open arms.

It was George Bush's fault. He did it.

re: #40 meMarc

Hey, maybe Allah is gay and will welcome him with open arms.

GMTA, man, GMTA.

re: #29 meMarc

Arafat just better hope there ain't no Allah because he's in deep shit if there is. No coffee breaks where he's going.

Oh, there's an Allah alright, though he goes buy another name at home, and Arafat is real tight with him down there now.

Oriana Fallaci thought there was something odd about Arafat during her interview years and years ago. I forget how she put it, and I don't have my copy of Interview with History near me in order to quote exactly, but it was essentially that she thought that he had some definite gay tendencies and that his personal guards were, well, at little too good looking and kinda swishy.

And for those who forgot

"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."

Munteaunu continued: "I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man." Munteaunu, wrote Pacepa, spent months pulling together secret reports from Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian intelligence agencies as well as Romanian files.

"I used to think I knew just about everything there was to know about Rahman al-Qudwa," Arafat's real name, "about the construction engineer who made a fortune in Kuwait, about the passionate collector of racing cars, about Abu Amman," Arafat's nom de guerre, "and about my friend Yasser, with all his hysterics," explained Munteaunu, handing Pacepa his final report on the PLO leader. "But I've got to admit that I didn't really know anything about him."

Pacepa wrote: "The report was indeed an incredible account of fanaticism, of devotion to his cause, of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teen-ager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading the report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat, or even just shaken his hand."

"If true, Arafat would have a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world," writes Frum, suggesting that Arafat was airlifted to France for medical treatment because he "could trust the French to protect his intimate secret."

Zionist slander! Or something.

Come to think of it, how bad is the AIDS problem in the Middle East? I imagine they don't want to talk about it...

re: #10 MikieBahamas

Payback is a bitch!

God works in mysterious ways.

This isn't G_d. This is "personal responsibility." Play ---------> Pay. Sow ---------> Reap

I'm not about to hang my hat on an AIDS proclamation on Arafish from Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV.
As much as I want to believe it, this just as easily could be anti-Arafat Hizballah propaganda.

re: #34 lawhawk

Correction to the above - it joined the PLO in 1968... it was independently created earlier out of a group of different terrorist groups and socialists.

Hey Zombie....
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed your post yesterday containing the thoughtful, articulate emails from your muslim audience! Haven't laughed like that in a while! Remember
eat and f#$& pick at the same time

;^)

So that´s what was in the red binder.

T helper cell reports.

Veterinarians Without Borders

Save the Goats Project

Ha! Can't you recognize a Mossad plant when you see one?

Of course this ruse will be exposed when Fatah releases the French medical report showing Yassir died of Zionist Genocidal Nazi Apartheid poisoned mind rays. Any year now.

Old Mo was happy to have "received" Yasser (for all eternity).

re: #28 Ward Cleaver

The latest (serious) theory I've heard is that the original "patient zero" must have contracted AIDS by committing necrophilia on a recently deceased chimpanzee.

(Not kidding.)

The theory being that the most viable way for it to have been transmitted from apes to humans is not through eating but through sex, and since a chimp obviously wouldn't stand for sex with a human while alive, and since the virus can only survive a short time in a dead body, the logical scenario is that some African killed a chimp (probably for food), but after killing it decided to "have a go" with the carcass.

re: #27 Tumulus11

. Suha is unconcerned.
She knew what was in the Red Binder all along.

So the red binder was a photo album? Who knew?

Who the hell cares...he is dead.....and Iran and Syria are killing our troops...I wish we talked more about this.....

Initial Benchmark Assessment Report

[Link: www.whitehouse.gov...]

PA reaction: "He didn't have it. It's your fault he had it. You are racists."

LLL reaction: "How homophobic of you to say that he would have it. And you shouldn't say things that will inflame their perfectly accceptable homophobic culture."

OT:

[Link: memri.org...]

Khudayr Taher, an Iraqi Shi'ite writer living in the U.S. and a regular contributor to the liberal Elaph website, had a quite illiberal suggestion - he asked why Europe and America shouldn't deport their Muslim populations. He wrote:

"Countries have the right to defend themselves and assure their citizens' safety from terrorism. Likewise, it is clear that the source of the terrorist crimes in Europe and America is the Muslims who live in these countries.

"The security services cannot know people's intentions and sort out who is the noble immigrant and who is a terrorist criminal. [But] wherever there are Muslims, their presence has produced crimes of terrorism and murder.

"Among those Muslims in Europe and America who do not practice terrorism, most of them do not have loyalty and sincere attachment to these countries that have offered them all of the means of life in dignity - housing, studies, work, and citizenship...

"The legitimate question is this: Since the security services cannot sort out the good immigrant from the bad terrorist... why don't these countries deport all Muslims, of all races, from Europe and America, and [thus] find rest from the danger of terrorism, and protect their peoples?

"I, as an Arab Muslim immigrant, sincerely call on the countries of Europe and America to deport all Muslims from their territories - including myself, despite my love and my sincere attachment to the U.S..."

re: #55 zombie

Can you find a link?

I guess this is why they try and stick to the 72 virgins then ...

re: #36 Buck

Calm down lizards...

This guy is stating what he heard someone else say. He did not see the report.

AND you know that tommorow he will be able to say that he was mis translated...

IMO This isn't the break we are looking for. We need a former lover, with graphic pictures to move the Arab Street.

Also it is not all great that Arafat was homosexual. This could very easily lead to a lot of gay bashing, both in the streets of Gaza, and in these forums...

Maybe Larry Flynt should put up a few million for a photograph. I'm sure somebody was bribing him what with all that aid money he was getting.

re: #39 Ward Cleaver

Allah is buggering him right now.

Your wish is my command!

re: #46 Pawn of the Oppressor

Zionist slander! Or something.

Come to think of it, how bad is the AIDS problem in the Middle East? I imagine they don't want to talk about it...

The last I heard, they don't even want to test for it. I would be willing to make an educated bet that it would be well worth your while to remain firmly celibate.

re: #25 sceneone

Where do we sign up to stone the corpse? praise Allah.

I'm not one for desecrating graves, but if given the opportunity, there are two grave sites I will happily pee on:

- Arafat
- Ted Kennedy (may the day come soon)

Maybe I should make a list, because I'm tempted to add LBJ and Robert McNamara to those.

The Israeli's missed a chance to cause Arafat's death by high-velocity lead.

But hey. Justice, like morality, is all relative, right? Who am I to say that the proper death for a mass-murderer is a bullet? Who am I to say that he was a mass-murder? How can one really define "murder" anyways.

/disgusted

The red binder was his med schedule.

Guess that's why they had to get him out of the West Bank and from among most his followers that fast. If word surfaced that Arafat was a pederast/homosexual imagine what Hamas might do to him. It will certienly destroy his credibility as the great freedom fighter. I guess we should have saw that coming from the "Father of the Palestinian Nation".

LOL Arafish. No 72 virgins for you.

OT

Musharraf vows war on militants

President Pervez Musharraf says he is determined that extremism and terrorism will be eradicated in Pakistan.

I wonder if this means he's going to wise up and let us go after Osama in that territory between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

re: #55 zombie

While it was still warm ...

(sorry)

In other AIDS news;

Charles wrote: They’re almost certainly not going to be executed. This [Libyan death sentence] is an elaborate honor/shame charade, trying to shake money out of some gullible EU country; if not Bulgaria, any of the others might pony up.

I predict Kaddafi and his thugs will execute these dirty kuffar nurses-- to demonstrate they're still serious extortionists-- even if that means holding them hostage 'til they rot in a Libyan prison.

These are the same rough beasts who slaughtered 270 innocents at Lockerbie for Christmas 1988. They're the same [bigoted word]s who armed, based, trained, financed and (yes) directed decades of bloody IRA bombing campaigns. They're the same barbarian tribesmen who've practiced piracy and extortion for centuries against Western Europe.

The jackal can't change his cackle.... but let's all pretend otherwise;

Bush to send ambassador to Libya, first in years

In a sign of improving U.S. ties with Libya, President George W. Bush on Wednesday announced he was sending the first U.S. ambassador to Tripoli in nearly 35 years.

Kaddafi delenda est

re: #46 Pawn of the Oppressor

Zionist slander! Or something.

Come to think of it, how bad is the AIDS problem in the Middle East? I imagine they don't want to talk about it...

There is no AIDS under Islam!

Homosexuals are executed.
Sick people are executed or left to die.
Anyone who engages in sex outside marriage is stoned to death.
Medicine has barely progressed beyond the 7th century.

re: #63 zombie

re: #39 Ward Cleaver

Allah is buggering him right now.

Your wish is my command!

zombie,
take off the captions and that looks like any Friday night scene in San Francisco

Hm.... That does put a somewhat different spin on Arafat's widely publicized, to the accompaniment of fawning media attention, donation of blood to "help" the surviving victims of 9/11.

Oh, yeah.

re: #63 zombie

Damn.

Is his daughter really his daughter?

If she is, does the poor kid have HIV as well?

Now where was that photoshopped piccy of rage boy looking like a chimp ...

re: #63 zombie

re: #39 Ward Cleaver

Allah is buggering him right now.

Your wish is my command!

Don't get me started again! LOL!

While I kind of believe it, I'm also not surprised Hiz TV is running this story. It's an attempt to smear Fatah. Hizbollah and Hamas have more in common than with Fatah.

Probably true (from other sources), so Hiz has no reason not to run it to turn public opinion against Fatah.

re: #79 MrMomGreat, zombietime is blocked here now.

re: #50 MrMom

Hey Zombie....
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed your post yesterday containing the thoughtful, articulate emails from your muslim audience! Haven't laughed like that in a while! Remember
eat and f#$& pick at the same time

I'm still not sure why that quote was the only gem that struck a chord with the audience!

Personally, I was more partial to

"Shame on You! Shame On You! Is it your contemporaneousness?! "

and

"Just wait for the Angle of Death"

This is an old story. It was doing the rounds within days of Arafat's death. Some people suggested that he caught if off rent boys in Tripoli. Here's another one:

[Link: web.israelinsider.com...]

Until we see a medical report we can't jump to conclusions, but a reporter for Haaretz claimed to have had access to it:

[Link: www.danielpipes.org...]

I'm guessing old Yasser was more looking forward to all the promised young boys 'round about in paradise with butts gleaming like two pearls than he was all those nasty virgins.

re: #80 bianchi_roadie

There have also been reports that Hizbullah has managed to take over the al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, which is Fatah's more militant faction, though Fatah retains "administrative controls."

I'd simply note that all seek Israel's destruction, and each will deal with the others unless there are serious personality conflicts - which is almost always a given because of the egomaniacs leading each of these groups and the way each leads is to buy off support by giving their minions leadership of new factions.

re: #74 buzzsawmonkey

Yesterday afternoon's open thread around #50 or #60. Gonna love it Buzz! (the rest of the thread got very amusing...including dry humping dolphins. No kidding.

re: #60 Ward Cleaver

re: #55 zombie

Can you find a link?

Sadly, no -- I heard it in a conversation with level-headed scientist types who were seriosuly discussing the latest literature.

No clue how to find a link.

re: #82 zombie

I'm still not sure why that quote was the only gem that struck a chord with the audience!

Personally, I was more partial to

"Shame on You! Shame On You! Is it your contemporaneousness?! "

and

"Just wait for the Angle of Death"

Those were good, zombie, but "Eat & F*** Pick!" belongs in the glossary!

re: #71 Terp Mole

In other AIDS news;

Charles wrote: They’re almost certainly not going to be executed. This [Libyan death sentence] is an elaborate honor/shame charade, trying to shake money out of some gullible EU country; if not Bulgaria, any of the others might pony up.

I predict Kaddafi and his thugs will execute these dirty kuffar nurses-- to demonstrate they're still serious extortionists-- even if that means holding them hostage 'til they rot in a Libyan prison.

I hope you're wrong (and I think you are, I think it's a dance leading up to releasing them), but unfortunately I wouldn't rule that out. We'll see soon enough whether they're released or not.

re: #86 MrMom

Dolphins need lubrication - how else are they going to save the planet from global warming otherwise?

re: #74 buzzsawmonkey

#63 zombie

Where is your post with the fan mail? I miss all the cool overnight stuff.

Here.

The theory being that the most viable way for it to have been transmitted from apes to humans is not through eating but through sex, and since a chimp obviously wouldn't stand for sex with a human while alive, and since the virus can only survive a short time in a dead body, the logical scenario is that some African killed a chimp (probably for food), but after killing it decided to "have a go" with the carcass.

Great. Yesterday it was dolphin frottage and today it's primate necrophilia. Can we please have a thread that doesn't delve into bestiality.

re: #55 zombie

it is possible that a person with an open wound got chimp blood in it by accident, while hunting

or meat that was not cooked enough and the person had a digestive problem that let the virus in

or any of a number of ways.

re: #26 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

HAHAHAHAH.

Charles, IIRC, you had a post circa early November 2004 positing a theory on Arafish dying of AIDs or something along those lines, correct?

I guess this is not a good time to mention the theory that syphilis got into humans because members of a certain community had camels as one of their many wives ....

AIDS infected melons from the joos.

BBC's favorite journalist:

[Link: switch5.castup.net...]

This guy is ALWAYS on the BBC.

Speaking of camels - I have met a man who (*ahem*) "did it" with a camel - he said that camels were better than sheep or goats and "almost like a women"

Dutch Bill Seeks to Ban the Burqa....

Won't pass but we can dream!

re: #91 zombie

OMG-zombie you drower!

Don't DROW THE PROPHET!

re: #99 drk

Well camels probably put less on the credit card-and have fewer headaches, right?

re: #81 Ward Cleaver

re: #79 MrMomGreat, zombietime is blocked here now.

(Tail between legs. Log out. Lurk on>)

re: #97 jharada

ROTFLMAO

re: #93 wargammer2005

re: #55 zombie

it is possible that a person with an open wound got chimp blood in it by accident, while hunting

or meat that was not cooked enough and the person had a digestive problem that let the virus in

or any of a number of ways.

Yeah, personally, I think the most likely method was not in eating the meat or from sex but from butchering the ape or monkey after killing it.

Easy enough to cut one's hand while prepping the carcass for meat.

They would have had to do it very very soon after killing the primate, though, because the virus can only survive a couple hours after death (at outdoor temperatures).

re: #102 WriterMom

Its that old "cheaper to run" argument again ...

re: #96 drk

I guess this is not a good time to mention the theory that syphilis got into humans because members of a certain community had camels as one of their many wives ....

I thought syphilis started out as a horse disease -- right? (Like the common cold -- also a horse disease.)

IIRC, the PFLP was a Marxist, not Islamic, anti-Israeli terror group, and even (George Habash?) has a Christian born commander.

So why didn't the French tell the truth about Arafish?

oh, nevermind...

Arab "boy" love is quite common, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

Interesting, yes! Surprise, no...

Latest update on older thread about possible Super-Typhoon starting to affect US troops in Okinawa.

re: #107 zombie

Horses not camels! Que Horror! Have you got a link - I heard camels years ago and haven't seen anything else lately

.. of course with either horses or camels you need a reliable step-ladder

re: #105 zombie

re: #93 wargammer2005

re: #55 zombie

it is possible that a person with an open wound got chimp blood in it by accident, while hunting

or meat that was not cooked enough and the person had a digestive problem that let the virus in

or any of a number of ways.

Yeah, personally, I think the most likely method was not in eating the meat or from sex but from butchering the ape or monkey after killing it.

Easy enough to cut one's hand while prepping the carcass for meat.

They would have had to do it very very soon after killing the primate, though, because the virus can only survive a couple hours after death (at outdoor temperatures).

I agree with you zombie. You do have to take into account the difference between outdoor temps here and outdoor temps near the equator though. Most of the year those would be closer to body temp.

I do - and have always - have one reservation about this theory though. It is close to impossible to infect chimps with HIV. There is a similar virus (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus - SIV) that is used in research.

Mo, singing an old Pretender's tune upon entering the underworld...

Mo, I saw a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
Won't you jack with my world tonight?
To a place in my ass in the past
Weve been cast out of? oh oh oh oh
Now it's feeling so right
Oh, I feel such great pain
I'm back to the gang bang...

A circumstance beyond my control, oh oh oh oh
The phone, the tv and the bombs of the world
Got me thrown like a demon into hell, oh oh oh oh
With stars in my eyes as the guards upzipped flies
Oh, I feel such great pain
I'm back to the gang bang...

re: #99 drk

Speaking of camels - I have met a man who (*ahem*) "did it" with a camel - he said that camels were better than sheep or goats and "almost like a women"

I really, really, didn't want to know that. Ack.

re: #89 Charles

re: #71 Terp Mole

In other AIDS news;

Charles wrote: They’re almost certainly not going to be executed. This [Libyan death sentence] is an elaborate honor/shame charade, trying to shake money out of some gullible EU country; if not Bulgaria, any of the others might pony up.

I predict Kaddafi and his thugs will execute these dirty kuffar nurses-- to demonstrate they're still serious extortionists-- even if that means holding them hostage 'til they rot in a Libyan prison.

I hope you're wrong (and I think you are, I think it's a dance leading up to releasing them), but unfortunately I wouldn't rule that out. We'll see soon enough whether they're released or not.

They will push the the last minute, have the firing squad warming up on a few common criminals, feed the condemned the last meal, give them a chance to convert to Islam. The at the last second the great enlightened leader Quaddafi will pardon them in a great show of mercy. Showing once again how much greater he is than the rest.

re: #110 WeaselZipper

I was chatted up in Luxor once by an Arab who said I looked like "Kevin Costner"- does that count? Probably not because I was like 30+ at the time ...

re: #109 NoSubmission

So why didn't the French tell the truth about Arafish?

oh, nevermind...

Remember all that seething in the muslim world because of a cartoon? Now tell them that their #1 current hero died of AIDS . . . . . .

As long as the old bastard is still dead, I am happy.

Silky Pony campaign HQ evacuated

I question the timing.

At the rate he's going, his HQ will be permanently evacuated before long.

re: #110 WeaselZipper

Arab "boy" love is quite common, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

Interesting, yes! Surprise, no...

Well, I understand pederasty is quite common. But I was under the impression that generally the partner at risk of catching AIDS was the receptive partner, and that only in parts of Africa and Asia, where untreated venereal diseases provide a path through the penis into the blood stream, do males not engaged in receptive homosexual activity have a high risk for contracting AIDS.

I never was a fan of Arafat, however, this AIDS thing is just gossip until it is verified by at least two independent medical sources. You cannot tell what kind of hay it was unless you smelled the pitchfork.

re: #120 JammieWearingFool

Silky Pony campaign HQ evacuated

I question the timing.

At the rate he's going, his HQ will be permanently evacuated before long.

Did he remember his hairbrush and his compact?

re: #121 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

re: #110 WeaselZipper

Arab "boy" love is quite common, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

Interesting, yes! Surprise, no...

Well, I understand pederasty is quite common. But I was under the impression that generally the partner at risk of catching AIDS was the receptive partner, and that only in parts of Africa and Asia, where untreated venereal diseases provide a path through the penis into the blood stream, do males not engaged in receptive homosexual activity have a high risk for contracting AIDS.

What I mean is, maybe sometimes Arafat was the tiger, and sometimes Arafat was the hyena.

He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I can't read that enough....that's f'ing hysterical. Just picture that old smelly bastard chasing around his bodyguard roaring like a tiger, prancing around like a gay pride parade, bitting the 'hyena' on the ass........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Hillary better get herself checked.

re: #115 Hard Right

He was an old soldier who had fought against the "fuzzie wuzzies" in the Sudan long before I was born. Interesting guy and my guess is he wouldn't have any time for any Islamic nonsense .. having fought against the "Old Madhi" and kicked ass ...

re: #122 RoyalCanadian

I never was a fan of Arafat, however, this AIDS thing is just gossip until it is verified by at least two independent medical sources. You cannot tell what kind of hay it was unless you smelled the pitchfork.

Not entirely gossip. There are a number of pictures of Arafat in the last couple of years of his life that show lesions on his face that look suspiciously like Kaposi's Sarcoma - diagnostic for AIDS.

NOSUB!

Whatever Happened to Lynne Stewart?

re: #122 RoyalCanadian
Thats one pitchfork I'd stay away from, ewwwwwwhwhhhhhh

re: #119 Joel

As long as the old bastard is still dead, I am happy.

I was so hoping for an Arafish car swarm, I feel so cheated.

109 NoSubmission and #118 galloping granny

According to a Rumanian intelligence officer who later defected to the West, the Rumanian secret police "the Securitate" had tapes of Arafat being given the Deliverance treatment by one of his bodyguards in a Bucharest hotel room.

I do - and have always - have one reservation about this theory though. It is close to impossible to infect chimps with HIV. There is a similar virus (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus - SIV) that is used in research.

Cats have a similar virus. I think that widely accepted theories about HIV's origins are incorrect and that the virus has been with humanity for a long time.

re: #123 buzzsawmonkey

re: #91 zombie

Thanks! You get the neatest mail.

I wonder if Islamic Rage Boy has learned to use a computer yet; I can just see him typing out a similar message down at The Bactrian Camel Halal Internet Cafe and Kebab Shoppe.

of course he has..."eat and fuck pick" was Islamic Rage Boy!

LOL!

The Turks (Ottomans) had an army of boys walk behind them backwards.

re: #121 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

Also the Islamic tradition of "thighing" makes it harder to catch - maybe Arafat bent over and played bitch ...

Expecting small boys Arafat has no idea what to do with th 72 virgins.....

re: #133 jcm

It would be nice to have seen Arafish having the top of his head literally being blown off by an Apache just like Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al Rantisi.

re: #124 galloping granny

This is the third time that they've had to evacuate because of suspicious packages. Whatever you think of him and his inadequacies as Presidential material, whoever is sending those packages should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They're putting people in danger and costing taxpayers serious money in emergency response.

In other news, Sharpe James, former Mayor of Newark, NJ (and lifelong Democrat) was indicted on 33 counts. The news article noting this accomplishment omitted the political affiliation part. Go figure.

re: #99 drk

Speaking of camels - I have met a man who (*ahem*) "did it" with a camel - he said that camels were better than sheep or goats and "almost like a women"

Seriously.....how the HELL did THAT come up in conversation?!?

re: #122 RoyalCanadian

You cannot tell what kind of hay it was unless you smelled the pitchfork.

No thanks....

re: #136 paxnhymn

"The Bactrian Camel Halal Internet Cafe and Kebab Shoppe."

LOL ...

but do they do "Goat Flavoured Condoms" yet?

re: #123 buzzsawmonkey

re: #91 zombie

Thanks! You get the neatest mail.

Well, I wouldn't call death threats "neat" exactly, but the rest of them can be amusing.

Most of my death threats don't bother me because I trace their email's IP and discover they sent it from Indonesia or London or somewhere far away, but Mr. "if i can see you I will kill you son of bitch" used some kind of anonymizer so I'm not assured that's safely on the other side of some ocean.

How could this be? I thought pork was forbidden?

that's safely = that he's safely

John Loftus was reporting this a few years ago when Arafat first died. Nobody cared what he had to say, but then again Loftus is something of a mixed bag as far as being reliable is concerned.

re: #111 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

So is the eye aimed for Okinawa landfall?

re: #142 Sponge

re: #99 drk

Speaking of camels - I have met a man who (*ahem*) "did it" with a camel - he said that camels were better than sheep or goats and "almost like a women"

Seriously.....how the HELL did THAT come up in conversation?!?

"come"?up in conversation" ? Double intendre?

?ohh this is tooo damn funny!

But before my ignoble exit.....
A man joining the french foreign legion reported to his CO for duty. Middle of the African desert. Asks "doesn't it get lonely here? What do you do when you miss female companionship?" CO tells him, "there's a camel over there behind that tent." New recruit says, "I'll never be that desperate." Finally, new recruit becomes 'that desperate' and sneaks off behind the tent. CO hears odd noises, approaches, and sees the recruit copulating with the camel. CO screams "what are you doing?" New recruit says, "you told me when I got lonely for female companionship the camel was behind the tent." CO says, "ya, we usually take it into town to go to the whorehouse!"

Ba da dum.

re: #140 Joel

yeppers, i'd bugger his ass with a hellfire...

re: #142 Sponge

Somehow I get to meet the most interesting people - maybe its the company I keep!

re: #119 Joel

As long as the old bastard is still dead, I am happy.

The death cult lives on, but none by Arafat's hand anymore.

Looks like Yasser was the recipient of more than a Nobel, huh?

Pardon me if this has already been asked, but has it been discussed, in all seriousness, just how he actually contracted AIDS? Other than him perhaps being an intravenous drug user or someone who had sex with many, many people (unprotected sex at that), is there really any other way he could have gotten/died from AIDS?

Granted, the latter method is a rather disturbing thought with ANY political leader...LOL.

re: #117 drk

re: #110 WeaselZipper

I was chatted up in Luxor once by an Arab who said I looked like "Kevin Costner"- does that count? Probably not because I was like 30+ at the time ...

HAHAHAHA, be careful around those a-rabs, they have a tendency to explode!

When will I learn to stop eating watermelon while reading here? No I have more spewed watermelon and juice all over my keypad. The pissants are gonna' love it.

re: #148 xgaijin

John Loftus was reporting this a few years ago when Arafat first died. Nobody cared what he had to say, but then again Loftus is something of a mixed bag as far as being reliable is concerned.

I've always thought the same thing (about Loftus).

Was Arafat ever in Libya?

re: #55 zombie

re: #28 Ward Cleaver

The latest (serious) theory I've heard is that the original "patient zero" must have contracted AIDS by committing necrophilia on a recently deceased chimpanzee.

(Not kidding.)

The theory being that the most viable way for it to have been transmitted from apes to humans is not through eating but through sex, and since a chimp obviously wouldn't stand for sex with a human while alive, and since the virus can only survive a short time in a dead body, the logical scenario is that some African killed a chimp (probably for food), but after killing it decided to "have a go" with the carcass.

Wow. Back in the juvenille days of junior high school that was the running joke - "Dude, do you realize that for AIDS to reach people, it means somebody in Africa f-cked a monkey? LOL!". I never thought it might actually be true. @_@

re: #36 Buck

It's not that he was gay, as much that he was a pederast.

In our society we view such people as the lowest of the low.

-ron

re: #158 MandyManners
and ya don't know if that melon has been already used either......

What happened to Lynne Stewart, you ask?
Not enough, my friend, not enough...

re: #130 Ben Hur

re: #154 Silhouette

I wonder who was the real father of the child (since Yasser probably could not) of his wife Miss Piggy (Suha Arafish, the one living it up in Paris).

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Typhoon Man-Yi Mini-Update:

The eye is again contracting, and thunderstorm tops in the eye-wall have cooled to -80º C, indicating additional strengthening as the possible Super-Typhoon approaches the Japanese island of Okinawa and the US servicemen and servicewomen stationed there.

latest U-Wisconin Dvorak intensity is 127 knots, or 235 km/hr (146 mph)

re: #162 ballantrae

re: #36 Buck

It's not that he was gay, as much that he was a pederast.

In our society we view such people as the lowest of the low.

-ron

Wouldn't "pedophile" be the better term in that case? Or would it be pederast as in the old Greek/Roman (?) practice?

Theoretically, of course. We obviously have no proof that that's what he was doing. (Ew if it's true, by the way.)

re: #157 WeaselZipper

Nice guy but totally gay - the fact that my wife was in the shop at the same time as he was stroking my chest and making eyes at me made it even funnier ..

re: #144 drk

Get the variety pack. Goat, camel, sheep, horse, and cow.

re: #89 Charles: I hope you're wrong (and I think you are, I think it's a dance leading up to releasing them), but unfortunately I wouldn't rule that out. We'll see soon enough whether they're released or not.

I hope I'm wrong, too. I think much depends on whether Megrahi's tribal clan thinks releasing these nurses will hurt or help his case. I think they (and Kaddafi) don't care a lick about the blood money-- now that the oil revenues are flowing again.

You're right about the honor/shame aspect. But this game is more about springing Megrahi than jizya.

France dances for Kaddafi today;

French first lady visits Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya

French First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy on Thursday visited five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with HIV, France's president said.

The trip was Cecilia Sarkozy's first appearance on the international scene since her husband took office in May. As a campaign promise, he had promised to work to free the nurses.

President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters that his wife would also see Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and meet children affected infected with HIV on her trip.

Would you send your wife alone to meet this perv?

Maybe he got AIDS whilst consuming PORK. (Grumbling, and rolling eyes)...

re: #135 Dirk Diggler

I do - and have always - have one reservation about this theory though. It is close to impossible to infect chimps with HIV. There is a similar virus (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus - SIV) that is used in research.

Cats have a similar virus. I think that widely accepted theories about HIV's origins are incorrect and that the virus has been with humanity for a long time.

Yes, FIV - the F stands for feline.

People who seriously study AIDS pretty much discarded the chimps theory long ago. And most of the other theories that have been put forth. We've learned a couple of pretty interesting things though.

One of the very first people diagnosed with AIDS back in the early 80s actually survived. He lives in Massachusetts - or at least he did. After some years, despite the fact that we had developed much more sensitive tests, he no longer tested positive for AIDS by any means at all.

And then scientists started to notice all over the country that there were an ever increasing number of people whose partners had HIV/AIDS that never caught the virus, even though they had repeated unprotected exposure.

One of the upshots of all that was the discovery that people who are descended from survivors of the Black Plague seem to be immune to HIV.

And yes, there have been cases that when examined retrospectively appear to be AIDS many years before the "discovery."

re: #120 JammieWearingFool

Silky Pony campaign HQ evacuated

What happened? Did somebody drop his talcum powder and everybody thought it was an anthrax attack?

Speaking of Palestinians, one was killed in the West Bank after opening fire on Israeli soldiers. They had to call in sappers because he had a bomb vest. Palestinian terrorists have been quite busy in the West Bank - both Hamas and Fatah.

re: #171 Cap'n DOC

Maybe from a toilet seat?

German Woman Held in Iraq Is Freed; No News of Son

re: #169 jcm

I reckon I should open an "Islamic Farm" theme park then

Lawhawk,

I suspected you'd be on this story today. Good work.

Sharpe James became a very wealthy man running the cesspool known as Newark.

In other news, Sharpe James, former Mayor of Newark, NJ (and lifelong Democrat) was indicted on 33 counts. The news article noting this accomplishment omitted the political affiliation part. Go figure.

This post is a few years old but addresses AIDS in the Islamic world.

I have to imagine AIDS is a huge unreported issue in the Islamic world.

re: #135 Dirk Diggler

I think that widely accepted theories about HIV's origins are incorrect and that the virus has been with humanity for a long time.

I agree. My long-held theory is that humans have had the HIV virus for centuries, if not millennia. It only reached 'epidemic" level when, shall we say, the social behavior of a certain sub-population changed in the mid-70s.

It's not the kind of topic that can be discussed here, but what happened in New York and San Francisco starting around 1975 or so was so extreme that it created a new ecosystem -- essentially a communally shared bloodstream. That had never happened before.

A Year in Captivity

Now, You Be the Tiger

Intelligence on "the tiger" romping with bodyguards
Frum pointed to KGB evidence linking Arafat to homosexual activities, citing a 1987 book by Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa, the deputy chief of Romania's intelligence service under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

In his memoirs "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation in 1978 with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the PLO techniques to deceive the West into granting the organization recognition.

"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."

re: #172 galloping granny

One of the upshots of all that was the discovery that people who are descended from survivors of the Black Plague seem to be immune to HIV.

Well, that is one of the most interesting things I have learned today.

re: #150 paxnhymn

re: #142 Sponge

re: #99 drk

Speaking of camels - I have met a man who (*ahem*) "did it" with a camel - he said that camels were better than sheep or goats and "almost like a women"

Seriously.....how the HELL did THAT come up in conversation?!?

"come"?up in conversation" ? Double intendre?

?ohh this is tooo damn funny!

So seriously, was he arroused attending the county fair in the animal auctions?

re: #173 Kenneth

There have been three different incidents - each involving suspicious packages, some containing threats.

re: #141 lawhawk

re: #124 galloping granny

This is the third time that they've had to evacuate because of suspicious packages. Whatever you think of him and his inadequacies as Presidential material, whoever is sending those packages should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They're putting people in danger and costing taxpayers serious money in emergency response.

I'm sorry. You're right lawhawk! I was being flippant. I agree with you that whoever is sending those packages should be prosecuted and jailed. Aren't we scanning all packages to folks like him still?

re: #172 galloping granny

Wow, that's a lot of interesting info. I'll admit that I've never done that much research on the disease. I'm going off of what they told us back in high school (which I graduated from in '04)...that is to say, AIDS can't be caught through touching an infected person's hand, or through spit, etc. etc.

Descendants of those who survived the Black Plague? So basically anyone who lived through that time in Europe, then, so lots of Caucasians? What are the highest risk races for AIDS?

re: #176 buzzsawmonkey

In which case we can be partners and open "The Bactrian Camel Halal Internet Cafe and Kebab Theme Park" - with Farfur as guide ...

Any one mention today that today is the one year anniversary of the outbreak of the 2nd Lebanon War.? Olmerde really screwed that one up and why the oaf is till in power is beyond me. He and Avraham Burg - which one is more vile?

re: #186 lawhawk

Well I certainly condemn that sort of thing.

Arafat has completely destroyed my stereotype of gay men as handsome, strapping, cleanly happy people with a knack for show tunes. Although, I understand the the dude was a huge "Les Mis" fan.

re: #180 Canadian Infidel

AIDS is un-Islamic and "haram" - therefore any discussion of the subject makes you an apostate - or kufr - or worse ...

re: #109 NoSubmission

So why didn't the French tell the truth about Arafish?

oh, nevermind...

Birds of a feather.....

re: #190 Joel

Burg.

AIDS is another one of the left's favorite topics for conspiracy theories.

/arafat had AIDS? The Mossad did it.

re: #179 JammieWearingFool

Well, there was rumblings on nj.com's blog that they were going to be handing down the indictments today, but 33 counts? Dang. James was quite the busy bee.

Quote of the Day: "This indictment is about as surprising as the sun rising in the morning," New Jersey Republican Party chairman Tom Wilson said...

Maybe they should start making young boys wear burkas.

re: #185 Sponge

inquiring minds wanna know!LOL! There's gotta be something in the DSM-IV about specific diagnoses for livestock fettishes...

(this is sick but funny as hell!)

re: #198 bulwrk or chastity belts

The good news is Arafat is still dead, and won't be up for another Nobel prize. Will he?

re: #200 apachegunner

re: #198 bulwrk or chastity belts

backwards?

re: #190 Joel

Tie. Mind you-Olmerde's ineptitude cost Jewish lives. Burg's self-loathing hasn't yet.

re: #180 Canadian Infidel

This post is a few years old but addresses AIDS in the Islamic world.

I have to imagine AIDS is a huge unreported issue in the Islamic world.

Some years back I knew medical people who had worked in Saudi. They were pretty much forbidden to even mention certain diagnoses.

re: #202 paxnhymn better than none at all ain't it?

Why attack Edwards? I don't get it. It is contemptible, so looking for causes by me isn't excusing it, I'm just trying to figure out whom.

re: #178 drk

re: #169 jcm

I reckon I should open an "Islamic Farm" theme park then

Islamic Heavy Petting Zoo

re: #185 Sponge

No in the Sudan fighting the "Old Mahdi" - like - well almost 100 years ago.

I met him when he was a cleaner where I worked - he must have been at least 80 then and I was about 16 ..

Why he shared this with me ? I'll never know - but it is a pearl of wisdom that I will (a) take on trust and (b) remember to the grave ...

re: #13 Oh no...Sand People!

I thought AIDS started with monkey's and not goats?

You mean jews as monkeys? No way! :-P

He was too much of a man for just women.

re: #199 paxnhymn

yes, I don't feel good about the comments, but I am QUITE entertained....heheheheh.......baaahhahahahahaha said the goat.

A Gay Old Time in the Muslim World

THE ayatollahs may not slap him with a fatwah as they did Salman Rushdie, but fundamentalist clerics are bound to be enraged at Michael Luongo over "Gay Travels in the Muslim World" (Harrington Park Press), his book celebrating homosexuality in the Middle East. Luongo who compiled chapters by 17 writers covering Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Bangladesh, Turkey and Saudi Arabia had the foreword written by Afdhere Jama, the founder of Huriyah, "the world's first magazine for queer Muslims," who, he claims, number 150 million.

Arafat used to have sex with his bodyguards according to Eastern European (I think, specifically, Romanian) intelligence during the 1980's.

re: #203 WriterMom

Yeah I think that Burg should have a potted plant fall on his head from 20 story's up. Olmerde needs to be brought down so low that he can never rise again.

re: #208 Hard Right

re: #178 drk

re: #169 jcm

I reckon I should open an "Islamic Farm" theme park then

Islamic Heavy Petting Zoo

I want the "Animal Burka" concession ...

re: #214 new_tommy

Arafat used to have sex with his bodyguards according to Eastern European (I think, specifically, Romanian) intelligence during the 1980's.

See my post #134

re: #209 drk

That's REALLY good to know. You're welcome to stay....hehehe.

re: #206 apachegunner

re: #202 paxnhymn better than none at all ain't it?

LOL! Sure is...a cork or something...I dunno bout all that...I'm like the Diceman was on that subject, but I'm walkin' the delete line here...

re: #210 abbaMD
yes, a tiny little green monkey, it fit snugly in the palm of your right hand, or left if you chose, easy to use I guess....

re: #208 Hard Right

re: #178 drk

re: #169 jcm

I reckon I should open an "Islamic Farm" theme park then

Islamic Heavy Petting Zoo

LOL! With Farfour as the mascot!

Arafat always looked gay to me. There was something about his face and the way he walked and worked his hands when I would see him.

Just being honest with my observation of him. I always wondered if it was aids he died of. And that had absolutely nothing to do with hearing gossip /rolls eyes, I thought that on my own without hearing it elsewhere.

Wow - sounds a lot like flat honesty from Mr. Jibril. Better late than never. It's always possible he is saying it to move on and get somewhere, as he said.

One little thing I have to say to spoil this somber moment:

Yasser Arafat, who for 40 years had been carrying his gun from one place to another....

How many of you heard this little rhyme in your head when you read that?

This is my weapon and this is my gun.
One is for killing and one is for fun.

re: #219 paxnhymn
careful, careful, Charles is lurking.....

re: #201 kansas

The good news is Arafat is still dead, and won't be up for another Nobel prize. Will he?

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" as well

re: #217 Joel

re: #214 new_tommy

See my post #134

Ah, yes, then I'm not the only one who's heard about this. People used to think I was just making this stuff up.

The transmission of AIDs from monkey to human could very easilly been through a very serious bite.

Trust me, monkeys bite.

re: #184 Silhouette

re: #172 galloping granny

One of the upshots of all that was the discovery that people who are descended from survivors of the Black Plague seem to be immune to HIV.

Well, that is one of the most interesting things I have learned today.

Me too, I had no idea!

re: #227 Buck
and I'll bet ararat bit too....

re: #222 Highrise

He always looked evil to me.

re: #226 new_tommy

re: #217 Joel

re: #214 new_tommy

See my post #134

Ah, yes, then I'm not the only one who's heard about this. People used to think I was just making this stuff up.

For the record, that post highly disturbed me. I need a brain scrubber to get the image out. Ew.

While pedophile can be used to describe anyone who has sex with underaged children, the more clinical definition is a person who has sex with pre-pubescent children.

A pederast, however, is usually a gay man who prefers sex with under-aged, but post-pubescent boys. Most of the Catholic priests involved in the sex abuse scandal, and Michael Jackson, who appeared to have had relations with two different 13 year old boys, would be pederasts.

I'm not sure if there is a term for the 30 year old man who has sex with a 15 year old girl. Except for the lack of a homosexuality element, it is basically the same thing as pederasty.

I'm not sure if that is actually a mental health defect, or just a sleaze/low morals issue. I mean, I've seen attractive girls who were almost certainly under 18, but I'd never attempt to get them in bed.

I'm not saying he DIDN'T die of AIDS, but, and forgive me if I'm not getting it here, I don't think that Jibril is admitting that's how Arafat actually died - he's saying the French suggested that's what happened.

To be fair, I'm going entirely off of the topic post, so I may be reading it wrong.

lawhawk,

James just blame Bush, whitey, Corey Booker, whoever is convenient at any given time.

BTW, I notice Johnny "The Beard" Corzine refuses to part with emails and will no longer (allegedly) be using email.

Nothing like honest and open government.

The Dems scream about Bush not divulging emails but are oddly silent about Corzine witholding his.

Believable - YES, Proven - NO and NOT likely to be. Rumors in that part of the world, however, seem to have a life of their own.

-S-

re: #163 apachegunner

Good thing I have a strong tummy.

re: #188 Arashi

re: #172 galloping granny

Wow, that's a lot of interesting info. I'll admit that I've never done that much research on the disease. I'm going off of what they told us back in high school (which I graduated from in '04)...that is to say, AIDS can't be caught through touching an infected person's hand, or through spit, etc. etc.

Descendants of those who survived the Black Plague? So basically anyone who lived through that time in Europe, then, so lots of Caucasians? What are the highest risk races for AIDS?

The highest risk races for AIDS transmission are blacks & latinos, pretty much in that order. Yes, most Black Plague survivors were European - northern & eastern European to be precise about it. No, you cannot get tested to see if you are immune.

What they told you in high school is reasonably correct. You cannot be infected with HIV simply by touching someone. The virus is spread in three ways - unprotected sex (and that includes oral), shared needles and through "exchange of body fluids." The first two are the ones to worry about.

Something they did not tell you in high school: a condom has a 20% or so (depending on brand, some are far worse) failure rate as regards pregnancy even when used properly. The HIV virus is something like 1/1000 or less the size of a sperm.

re: #226 new_tommy

re: #217 Joel

re: #214 new_tommy

See my post #134

Ah, yes, then I'm not the only one who's heard about this. People used to think I was just making this stuff up.

The Rumanian intellegence officer's name was Ion Pacepa.

re: #228 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

re: #184 Silhouette

re: #172 galloping granny

One of the upshots of all that was the discovery that people who are descended from survivors of the Black Plague seem to be immune to HIV.

Well, that is one of the most interesting things I have learned today.

Me too, I had no idea!

One of the few timed PBS had interesting, unbiased info.

Historical Footnote: Jibril was the mastermind behind Iran's horrific Autumn Leaves multiple airliner bombing plot (luckily thwarted by German intelligence) in Fall 1988.

Jibril's operation would've dwarfed Lockerbie.

re: #232 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

Ah, thanks for the clarification...I kind of figured there was some difference between the two terms that I was missing.

Intelligence on "the tiger" romping with bodyguards

In his memoirs "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation in 1978 with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the PLO techniques to deceive the West into granting the organization recognition.

"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."

/squeal like a pig yelp like a hyena

I see this as a pulicity stunt for Hamas to gather support.

Alerts of Israeli death rays from outer space carrying HIV will soon be circulating through Gaza and the West Bank as well as in France.

Zombie - we are due for more Cana type pics of AIDS suffering palis. Keep your photoshop open.

/NOT sarc

re: #242 Killian Bundy

That must sound worse then "squealing like a pig."

re: #45 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

And for those who forgot

From your link you find this one . . .the beginning trail to the medical report:
Arafat's nephew goes to Paris to pick up medical report

Before Arafat died I too thought the lesions of his face were AIDS like. Tiger...gross and funny at the same time.

re: #234 JammieWearingFool

Corzine is withholding 'em because of the ongoing investigations into his relationship with Katz.

re: #205 Ben Hur

[Link: www.liveleak.com...]

Kinda close range for that thing, looks to be around 100m. Think I'd like about 250m to target, bloody thing has an effective range of 1830m.

re: #230 Sharmuta

He always looked evil to me.

Yep yep..all those evil dictators have the same eye look. It always befuddles me how others don't see it. Maybe it is because those people don't believe in evil. Of course my brother is a sociopath so I got to see what the *empty soul evil* type looked from an early age. It isn't pretty...it's pretty unforgiving, unmerciful, never apologetic, and solely self centered and no one else exists.

I agree. My long-held theory is that humans have had the HIV virus for centuries, if not millennia. It only reached 'epidemic" level when, shall we say, the social behavior of a certain sub-population changed in the mid-70s.

Which, of course, was all Ronald Reagan's fault.

re: #172 galloping granny

One of the upshots of all that was the discovery that people who are descended from survivors of the Black Plague seem to be immune to HIV.

Saw a PBS documentary on the black death, somthing to to with a gene mutation in survivors that gets past down the genetic chain.

re: #223 Catttt

Wow - sounds a lot like flat honesty from Mr. Jibril. Better late than never. It's always possible he is saying it to move on and get somewhere, as he said.

One little thing I have to say to spoil this somber moment:

Yasser Arafat, who for 40 years had been carrying his gun from one place to another....

How many of you heard this little rhyme in your head when you read that?

This is my weapon and this is my gun.
One is for killing and one is for fun.

I learned that many years ago when they still made soldiers parade around and exhibit both as " This is my rifle (illustrate) and this is my gun (illustrate) this is for fighting (illustrate) and this is for fun (illustrate.) Every GI's worst nightmare in basic training.

re: #237 galloping granny

re: #188 Arashi

re: #172 galloping granny

Wow, that's a lot of interesting info. I'll admit that I've never done that much research on the disease. I'm going off of what they told us back in high school (which I graduated from in '04)...that is to say, AIDS can't be caught through touching an infected person's hand, or through spit, etc. etc.

Descendants of those who survived the Black Plague? So basically anyone who lived through that time in Europe, then, so lots of Caucasians? What are the highest risk races for AIDS?

The highest risk races for AIDS transmission are blacks & latinos, pretty much in that order. Yes, most Black Plague survivors were European - northern & eastern European to be precise about it. No, you cannot get tested to see if you are immune.

What they told you in high school is reasonably correct. You cannot be infected with HIV simply by touching someone. The virus is spread in three ways - unprotected sex (and that includes oral), shared needles and through "exchange of body fluids." The first two are the ones to worry about.

Something they did not tell you in high school: a condom has a 20% or so (depending on brand, some are far worse) failure rate as regards pregnancy even when used properly. The HIV virus is something like 1/1000 or less the size of a sperm.

Ah, so there's a chance that I'm "immune," not that it really matters, since I'm not having sex 'til I'm married anyway (and the man I plan on marrying hasn't had sex, either).

The last fact that you mentioned is another reason I'm waiting. People rely on "birth control" methods entirely too much. There is always a chance of failure with it, and I'd rather not take the risk to "have a little fun" (which is what people "advocating" me to take the plunge tend to use as an excuse).

Amazing advances in medical technology and research...gotta love it. I'm such a nerd for this kind of thing.

Based on Okinawa weather radar from the JMA (using the last 3 hours animation option) the eye probably will pass directly over Okinawa.

Cat 4 based on Dvorak analysis, which, for major (cat 3 and higher cyclones) is based on the temperature differential between the thunderstorm tops in the eye wall, and the eye itself. 87º Celcius temperature differential, per the latest UW-Madison analysis, which is now an hour old, and since then the thunderstorms have cooled at least an additional 8º, so Man-Yi is probably again a Cat 5 Super-Typhoon.

Very strong cyclones will undergo fluctuations in intensity, sometimes due to eye-wall replacement cycles. It looks like Man-Yi just finished one at exactly the wrong time for Okinawa.

re: #237 galloping granny

Something they did not tell you in high school: a condom has a 20% or so.

They told us, but it was the '80s, when safe sex could still be questioned.

I believe the analogy used was that "safe" sex was like playing Russian Roulette with a five-shooter. Ya feel lucky, punk?

Let's ask first of all why the Islamists (Hizballah TV) and Marxists (the PFLP) want to discredit Arafat just at this time. Maybe he did die of AIDS, but why is this brought up just now? Perhaps because there is a power struggle going on.

re: #31 the Daily Kos Om Islaam

So on top of a murderous, rebellious, ugly d*ck head, he was a homosexual too?

More likely a pedophile. There's quite a difference!

re: #249 Highrise

Maybe it is because those people don't believe in evil.

Calling Evil "evil" is mean, and it hurts Evil's feelings.

re: #105 zombie

there was an interesting documentary that tried to blame AIDS on the polio shots that a team of doctors created, using sick chimps.

but i beleive DNA and RNA testing has shown that to not be the case. but it does lead to other questions.

AIDS is here.
that is waht matters.

Ah, so there's a chance that I'm "immune," not that it really matters, since I'm not having sex 'til I'm married anyway (and the man I plan on marrying hasn't had sex, either).

The last fact that you mentioned is another reason I'm waiting. People rely on "birth control" methods entirely too much. There is always a chance of failure with it, and I'd rather not take the risk to "have a little fun" (which is what people "advocating" me to take the plunge tend to use as an excuse).

Amazing advances in medical technology and research...gotta love it. I'm such a nerd for this kind of thing.

I do commend you, but good luck with that.

Yargh! Can't help it!

Maybe Arafat was playing dragon

re: #257 Sabraguy
well? mohammed was one to right?

re: #214 new_tommy

Arafat used to have sex with his bodyguards according to Eastern European (I think, specifically, Romanian) intelligence during the 1980's.

Is it in this? It's about Arafat being a KGB agent.

This guys is based in Damascus and it is now useful for Baby Assad to let the truth about Arafat come since he is backing Hamas, not Fatah.

. Perhaps Arafish contracted the virus while frolicking with dolphins.